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Senior Data Engineer

Christchurch, Canterbury Region, New Zealand💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-15 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and build real-time data pipelines and data mesh architectures to enhance client data interactions and deliver tangible business outcomes.

Role type

Senior hands-on IC data engineer (consulting)

Builds

Bespoke data platforms, real-time and batch processing solutions, and data integrations for enterprises, scale-ups, and government clients.

Domain

Data Engineering, Cloud Architecture, AI

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Python, SQL, cloud-native services, data modelling, data storage patterns, containerisation, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code

Preferred skills

consulting experience, client-facing consulting approach

Technologies

AWS, GCP, Azure

Responsibilities

Design and build data platforms, pipelines, and integrations tailored to client environments; Develop batch and real-time data processing solutions at scale; Work directly with clients to understand requirements and advise on data architecture; Rapidly learn and adapt to new cloud platforms and frameworks; Help client teams build capability by sharing knowledge and establishing engineering practices; Contribute to security, governance, and quality across solutions.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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